Associate Professor Quality of Care and Outcomes Research, Leiden University Medical Center, BMJ Quality & Safety; Netherlands

Perla J. Marang-van de Mheen, PhD is an epidemiologist with interest in quality of care and outcomes research, with a special focus on methodology. She also serves as Senior Methods Editor for BMJ Quality & Safety, where she is passionate in using her broad expertise on epidemiological and statistical methods to improve methodological rigor in quality improvement work.

Her research focuses on topics such as hospital performance measurement in surgical specialties, implementation & de-implementation, and methodologies to improve our ways to measure and evaluate quality of care such as funnel plots around the median rather than a dichotomous outcome. Dr. Marang-van de Mheen has co-represented the LUMC in the consortium Quality of Care of the Netherlands Federation of Universities from 2011 to 2017 and currently serves as a member of the methodological board of the Dutch Institute for Clinical Auditing, and on the expert panel Health and Health Care of the Central Bureau of Statistics.